Summary
Gabe Hicks is a pragmatic technology leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling mission-critical, high‑scale applications across startups and multinational enterprises. As Vice President of Engineering at Crelate and former CTO roles, he blends hands-on architecture and delivery experience with people-first processes to make continuous delivery and agile practices predictable on demanding projects. He’s delivered systems integrating Oracle and mainframes to cloud-native microservices, and has deep Java/Spring, CI/CD, testing and multi-tier architecture expertise. Gabe is equally comfortable running sales-engineering and developer training programs as he is rescuing off-track projects, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and operational leadership. Based in Seattle, he has repeatedly turned complex requirements into robust production systems while building teams that scale.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The Evergreen State College